I lost my EOS M strap... must've fell out of my bag when I was in London. Anyway... there are absolutely no solutions for this anywhere as Canon uses a proprietary lug attachment system. There's no aftermarket straps... no Canon ones on eBay... Canon's own website doesn't even acknowledge such a strap exists. Any thoughts or ideas?

None on eBay... none on Amazon. Under any brand.

Well, I have one that I'll sell you. It's an unused one that came original with my eos m. PM me if you are still looking.

Many people seem to have different hopes for this camera than I. An optional hotshoe EVF sounds fine but I'm glad there isn't one built in. I'd rather the size stay crazy small.

What I want is DPAF or similarly quick and accurate photo and video AF, more dials (which seems to be the case), a built in pop-up flash that can function as a master for off-camera speedlites, and it definitely needs wifi.

Somehow this thread is no longer relevant to the original post, but...

Would I use the M on a paid shoot? Yes, I just did. Shooting for a story in a small bi-monthly (~40,000 readers) about great spots for beer lovers. I took my regular gear and on a whim grabbed the M and 22mm as well. The bar I shot at was very welcoming but one of the bartenders I was shooting was clearly starting to get a little tense and nervous about a big camera in his face. So, I grabbed the M. I could shoot, conversation, and look the bartender in the eye at the same time. He relaxed and looked more natural. Guess which photos ran?

from a technical point of view, i'd say all programs are about the same. some do this adjustment better, some another.But i think three things more import than the actual output on a single file:

Workflow

Organizing content

user interface

I can only talk about DPP and Lightroom, and DPP looses three times in these points. The only up it gets is that the raws directly from camera look about the same as the JPEG, to achieve the same in lightroom, some setup would be needed, but i'm kinda lazy to do it, as the interface&workflow are so nice.I think the lightroom interface is a bit more intuitive than the adobe raw converter found in CS/Elements.I'm a huge fan of lightroom, but before 5.1 is released, I'll stay with 4.x.

I don't own LR4, so it's LR5 or no Lightroom for me. As long as I'm not in danger of losing files, I would probably just live with a few bugs without too much worry. Is there something horribly wrong with LR5 or is it just general a general distrust of version x.0 software?

I won't have Lightroom for another week or so (it's in the mail). I plan to try them all out for myself as well as taking your advice.

So far, I would say DPP is a no. I know I said that IQ was the most important, but I just am not liking that software. The controls are not fine enough (i.e.: Contrast has only nine options -4 through 4). It would have to absolutely blow away the other. It is not.

Adobe DNG Converter was pretty much out from the start unless Adobe's updated raw converter in Lightroom 5 is somehow worse than in CS5. I find that extraordinarily unlikely.

Loving my M so far, but I have CS 5.5 and so can't do direct raw processing in Adobe Camera Raw. So, I'm looking for a new way to process raw files. Might as well try to find the best, right?

I have access to Adobe's free DNG Converter, Canon's Digital Photo Professional, CaptureOne 6, and Lightroom 5. Which of these would provide the best image quality? Is there something better? Does it make enough difference to really care?